Lyra Consolationis

Lyra Consolationis   There were two books with this title, published within thirty years of each other in the second half of the 19th century. The first dates from 1866. It was entitled Lyra Consolationis: or, hymns for the day of sorrow & weariness (London and New York, 1866). Some library catalogues list this as by Horatius Bonar*, but one British Library entry and that of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, give the author as ‘Mrs Bonar’, referring to Jane Catherine, née Lundie (d. 1884). The other was Lyra Consolationis from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, edited by Claudia Frances Hernaman* (London and New York, 1890).   The first was published without a Preface,...

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